Far Out Names

Always liked former USC track athlete Just'N Thymes.

A few years back we had a high school football player named Miraculous Powers — which I needed some of to keep from strangling the sports writer I sent out to do a story on him, with explicit instructions to ask about how he got his name (there was a good back story to it) as an obvious hook, and the writer never once mentioned it in said story.

 

Miraculous Powers is pretty great.

For several nominees, I present what appears (tragically) to be the final Name of the Year bracket.

Here's Your 2020 Name Of The Year Bracket

 

I was in the Navy with a guy named Richard Richard III.
It wasn't even Richard Richards. It was Richard Richard.

 

I knew a young man once whose girlfriend was named Candy Apple. And she was not 'in the service' so to speak. The kind of girl you'd bring home to mom.

 

I never personally met her, but I have had stories about some girl around these parts whose parents named her Crystal Shanda Lear.

 

I did cover a high school basketball player named Destini Fine.
I thought, "There are a lot of adult entertainers who have to work hard to come up with names like that."

 

Wonder if he played “dick dick goose” as a kid.

 

I once shot pictures at a little league game featuring a kid named Chandler Bing. My spit take was not appreciated.

 

That's Wonderful Terrific Monds to you, and he was a Jr. no less.

He also had a son, WTM III, who had a spell as a minor leaguer, primarily in the Braves system.

I'd like to contribute former Stetson basketball player Chief Kickingstallionsims to the list.

 

Still one of my favorite hockey player names but not out there so much as it's just a great name: Ty Rattie.

I went to college with a Shanda Morse. I asked her if her family was Jewish. Yep. Ouch. Yes, she knew.
Later on, she told me she had cousins who went by Dot, Dash, and Tap. Some people need to get terriers and stop there.

 

There was a girl in my high school named Candy Kane.